The secondary structure of myelin P2 protein derived by secondary structure prediction methods, circular dichroism, and 400-MHz 1H-NMR spectroscopy: implications for tertiary structure

Author(s):  
Hang-Cheol Shin ◽  
Ernest F. McFarlane
Author(s):  
Roma Chandra

Protein structure prediction is one of the important goals in the area of bioinformatics and biotechnology. Prediction methods include structure prediction of both secondary and tertiary structures of protein. Protein secondary structure prediction infers knowledge related to presence of helixes, sheets and coils in a polypeptide chain whereas protein tertiary structure prediction infers knowledge related to three dimensional structures of proteins. Protein secondary structures represent the possible motifs or regular expressions represented as patterns that are predicted from primary protein sequence in the form of alpha helix, betastr and and coils. The secondary structure prediction is useful as it infers information related to the structure and function of unknown protein sequence. There are various secondary structure prediction methods used to predict about helixes, sheets and coils. Based on these methods there are various prediction tools under study. This study includes prediction of hemoglobin using various tools. The results produced inferred knowledge with reference to percentage of amino acids participating to produce helices, sheets and coils. PHD and DSC produced the best of the results out of all the tools used.


2010 ◽  
Vol 08 (05) ◽  
pp. 867-884 ◽  
Author(s):  
YUZHONG ZHAO ◽  
BABAK ALIPANAHI ◽  
SHUAI CHENG LI ◽  
MING LI

Accurate determination of protein secondary structure from the chemical shift information is a key step for NMR tertiary structure determination. Relatively few work has been done on this subject. There needs to be a systematic investigation of algorithms that are (a) robust for large datasets; (b) easily extendable to (the dynamic) new databases; and (c) approaching to the limit of accuracy. We introduce new approaches using k-nearest neighbor algorithm to do the basic prediction and use the BCJR algorithm to smooth the predictions and combine different predictions from chemical shifts and based on sequence information only. Our new system, SUCCES, improves the accuracy of all existing methods on a large dataset of 805 proteins (at 86% Q3 accuracy and at 92.6% accuracy when the boundary residues are ignored), and it is easily extendable to any new dataset without requiring any new training. The software is publicly available at .


Proteins are made up of basic units called amino acids which are held together by bonds namely hydrogen and ionic bond. The way in which the amino acids are sequenced has been categorized into two dimensional and three dimensional structures. The main advantage of predicting secondary structure is to produce tertiary structure likelihoods that are in great demand for continuous detection of proteins. This paper reviews the different methods adopted for predicting the protein secondary structure and provides a comparative analysis of accuracies obtained from various input datasets [1].


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